The Prymer.

Here bigynnen matyns of our ladi.'

Domine labia,

ORD, thou schalt opyne myn lippis: And my mouth schal schewe thi prisyng.

God, take heede to myn help: Lord

hize thee to helpe me.

Glorie be to the fadir and to the sone and to the holy goost: As it was in the bygynnyng and now and euer and in to the worldis of worldis. So be it.

God make us saaf.4

Invit. Heil marie ful of grace, the lord is with thee.

shall understonde that glory ys called a good fame often spoken of with praysynge. Therefore when ye bydde glory to the father, and to the sone, and to the holy goste: ye aske and desyre that the blyssed trynyte shulde alwayes be praysed and thanked, and worshypped, for hys endeles goodnesse that ys in hymselfe, and for all the benefytes, that he hath done and dothe, and shall do to hys creatures." The Mirrour, fol. xlj. b.

4 Instead of this in the later books is "Alleluya :" followed by

Ps. Venite.

COME ye make we fulout ioie to the lord: hertili synge we to god oure heelthe. Bifore occupie we his face in knowelechynge: and hertili synge we to him in salmys.

Heil marie ful of grace, the lord is with thee.

For god is a greet lord and a greet kyng, aboue alle goddis: for the lord schal not putte awey his peple, for alle the eendis of the erthe ben in his hond: and he biholdeth the hiznessis of hillis.

The lord is with thee.

5

For the see is his and he made it: and hise hondis formeden the drie lond. Come ye herie we and falle we down bifore god, wepe we bifore the lord that made us for he is oure lord god, and we his peple and the scheep of his pasture."

Heil marie ful of grace, the lord is with thee.

3if' ye haue herd his voice to day, nyl ye make hard youre hertis: as in terringe to wrathe bi the

"Betwene Septuagesima (which begynneth the ij. saterday before clene lente) and Easter, for Prayse ye the lorde ye must say Laude be to the kyng of eternall glorye.

5 Herian. A. S. To praise, commend. Laudare. Bosworth.

6" For he fedeth vs wyth pasture of hys holy sacramentes, and of hys holy worde, and of hys comfortable grace, and hath ordeyned vs to haue hymselfe to our endeles refeceyon in blysse, yf we be hys trew sheepe." The Mir

rour. fol. xliv. b. The author continues his comparison into most

minute particulars: "Fruytefulle in wolle of vertues, and in mylke of pyte, and in lambren of gode dedes, and in dongue of mekenes, and in flesshe of charite and deuocyon."

7 Gif, gyf. A. S. If. Bosworth.

A. S. Nillan, nolle.

But whanne the word was herd that was seide Ihesus seyde to the prince of the synagogue nyle thou drede, oonli beleeve thou. Wiclif. Mark. c. 5. (Richardson.)

9 Tirian. A. S. To provoke, exasperare. Bosworth.

daie of temptacioun in desert, where youre fadris temptiden me, thei proueden and sizen my werkis.

The lord is with thee.

Fourti yeer I was ny3 to this generacion: and I seide euer more thei erren in herte, forsothe thei knewen not my weies, to whiche I swore in myn wrathe thei schulen not entre into my reste.

Heil marie ful of grace, the lord is with thee.

Glorie be to the fadir and to the sone and to the hooli goost. As it was in the bigynning and now and euermore and in to the worldis of worldis. So be it. The Lord is with thee.

Heil marie ful of grace, the lord is with thee.

threfold crafti werk:11 whom the erthe the see and the eyr, worchipen, honouren and prechen.

The bowelis of the maiden child beryn him to whom the moone and the sunne and alle thingis seruen bi tymes: bi the grace of heuene perfytli heeld out.

Blessid modir bi goddis zifte, in whos wombe was closid he that is hizest in all craftis and holdith the world in his fist.

She is blessid and fulfillid of the hooli goost, bi the message of heuene: of whom he that is desired to folkis of kynde is 30tun oute bi the wombe.

Glorie be to thee lord, that art borun of a maide: with the fadir and the hooli goost, in to euerlastynge worldis. So be it.

Thou art blessed.

Ps. Domine dominus.

ORD, oure lord: thi name is wondirful in al erthe. For thi greet doyng is reisid: aboue heuenes. Of the mouth of 3onge chyldren not spekynge, and soukynge mylk, thou madist perfytli heriyng for

thine enemyes that thou destrie the enmy and the wreker.12

For I schal se thin heuenes the werkis of thy fingris: the moone and the sterris whiche thou hast foundid.

What is a man that thou art myndeful of him: ethir the sone of a virgyn for thou visitist him.

Thou hast maad him a litil lesse than aungels: thou hast crouned him with glorie and honoure: and hast ordeyned him aboue the werkis of thin hondis.

Thou hast maad suget alle thingis undir hise feet: alle scheep and oxis, ferthermore and the beestis of the feld.

The briddis of the eir and the figshis of the see: that passen bi the pathes of the see.

Lord oure lord, thi name is wondirful in al erthe. Glorie be to the fadir.

As it was in the begynnyng.

HE

Ps. Celi enar.

EUENES tellen out the glorie of god: and the firmament tellith the werk of hise hondes.

The day tellith out to the day a word: and the nyzt shewith out kunnyng to the ny3t.

No langages ben, nether wordis: of whiche the voicis of hem ben not herd.

The soun of hem zede out in to al erthe: and the wordis of hem in to the endis of the world.

In the sunne he hath sett his tabernacle: and he as a spouse comynge forth of his chaumbre.

12 Wrican. A.S. To avenge

or revenge.

And of our bones some wreaker

may there spring. Surrey. Virgile. (Richardson.)